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Eastern Congo's second-largest city falls to rebels backed by Rwanda
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|February 16, 2025
PANIC swept through eastern Congo's second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.
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The morning after M23 fighters entered the outskirts of Bukavu—a city of about 1.3 million people that lies 101 kilometers south of rebel-held Goma—some streets were flooded by residents attempting to leave and looters filling flour sacks with what they could find. A pall of silence set in later in the day as residents and business owners braced for what comes next.
This story is from the February 16, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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